RSF asks UN to investigate Iranian journalist Baktash Abtin’s death Reporters Without Border | Jan. 15, 2022 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the UN to set up an independent international commission of enquiry into the death of Baktash Abtin, an Iranian journalist and writer who died on 8 January […]
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Newly unveiled statue of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani torched ARAB NEWS | 1/6/2021 DUBAI: A statue in central Iran of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force who was killed in a targeted US operation on Jan. 3, 2020, was torched after it has been unveiled to commemorate his death anniversary.
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US Navy seized Iranian petroleum products and hundreds of missiles from vessels in Arabian Sea CNN | By Ellie Kaufman, CNN | December 8, 2021 (CNN)The US Navy seized hundreds of Iranian missiles and 1.1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum products from vessels in
UN resolution censures serious rights abuses in Iran UN Third Committee resolution censures serious rights abuses in Iran Iran Human Rights Monitor | November 17, 2021 UN Third Committee resolution censures serious rights abuses in Iran. This is the 68the resolution passed by the United Nations condemning the flagrant human rights
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GOP Resolution Condemns Iran’s 2019 Crackdown of Protesters That Killed 1,500 Measure calls out Biden admin for lowering death count in official report Washington Free Beacon | Adam Kredo | November 17, 202 House lawmakers on Wednesday will unveil a resolution that marks the two-year anniversary of
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Washington Post | By Devlin Barrett and Kareem Fahim | June 22, 2021 The Justice Department moved Tuesday to seize more than 30 Web domains linked to Iranian state media, as American officials continued their efforts to counter what they say is Iranian propaganda and disinformation at a time of simmering tensions between the two countries. A
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Iran: UN calls for accountability on 1988 prison massacres marks turning point in three-decade struggle Amnesty International | Dec. 9, 2020 A group of UN human rights experts have written to the Iranian government warning that past and ongoing violations related to prison massacres in 1988 may amount to crimes against humanity and that they will call
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Radio Free Europe | Dec. 9, 2020Amnesty International has hailed a letter sent by UN experts to the Iranian government pressing for accountability over notorious prison massacres of dissidents in 1988. The human rights experts warned in their letter that past and ongoing violations related to the massacres “may amount to crimes against humanity,” Amnesty
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IRAN FOCUS | October 29, 2020 The United Nations General Assembly condemned the Iranian government on Monday for its ongoing and systematic human rights abuses. During the 75th session of UNGA’s Third Committee, which is focused on social and human rights issues, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, said that there is
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Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report Amnesty International | 2 September 2020 Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national
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